Following multiple letters and close communication between Senator Gallego and the Administration, federal Colorado River conservation funds are once again flowing to projects across Arizona PHOENIX – Today, Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, celebrated the restoration of millions of dollars in Colorado River conservation funding that had previously been frozen by the Trump Administration. The funding restoration comes after Senator Gallego sent multiple letters and spoke with the Administration about reversing the funding freeze. “I’d like to thank the Department of Interior and Bureau of Reclamation for having open lines of communication and for listening when I explained how this funding freeze

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) help provide affordable capital to communities that otherwise would not have access WASHINGTON – Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and a bipartisan group of 24 U.S. Senators are pushing back against the Trump Administration’s efforts to shrink the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund). In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the senators criticized the executive order signed late Friday night, warning that cutting the CDFI Fund would harm small businesses, homeowners, and local economies across the country.  The CDFI Fund boosts economic growth in largely underserved communities that lack traditional access to financing, creating a public-private partnership to promote access

WASHINGTON – Today, Arizona Senators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly announced that the Hopi Tribe has been awarded $4,165,796 from the Department of Energy to deploy a 250-kW solar powered microgrid that will power two wells at the remote, unelectrified Side Rock well field on the Hopi Reservation. These wells will deliver water to the villages of Upper and Lower Moenkopi via a pipeline that is currently in development as part of the ongoing Side Rock Water Supply project and will replace the current water source which is projected to be insufficient for community needs by 2025.  “I’m excited to announce that the Hopi Tribe has been awarded over $4